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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>In a word:
Nonsense</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I am Timetabler/Daily Organiser at Luther College and.have
sucessfully built a fairly complex timetable using MAZE (the private school
version of CASES21).</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>And we have a number of part-timers (who do get whole days) and a
varying number of periods for our subjects. We also use MAZE as our enterprise
database.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Mark Scott</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Luther College</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>PS That's gotta be worth some sort of kickback. : )</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au
on behalf of Robert Timmer-Arends<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 29/11/2005 5:42
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Year 12 IPM] Re: Booking software
-- does it integrate ??<BR></FONT><BR></DIV></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hello Kevork<BR><BR>re: 'One task I have for next year is to
integrate timetabling, reporting<BR>and attendance into one package ( vs the
current 3 different programs where<BR>changes have to moved across each time to
the others ). Thereafter, I wish<BR>to integrate the remaining databases
...... Wish me luck !'<BR><BR>can I offer a small piece of
advice?<BR>I have just finished a 4 year tour of duty as timetabler (and for 2
years as<BR>DO as well) and thought to do they same (having also been the
reports person<BR>before then). The department started making noises about a
timetabling<BR>component in CASES21. Given that the school has to use CASES21
for all its<BR>student admin, I thought it would be a logical step to move TT
and DO to<BR>CASES21. We moved halfway there (did all the blocking uses CASES21
TT<BR>module) but that as far as I got. The actual task of creating a timetable
in<BR>CASES21 defeated me in the end. I finally understand logic behind the
way<BR>CASES21 timetable is constructed but that logic does not work well when
you<BR>have lots of part timers and a range of periods per subject. Plus there
were<BR>all sorts of operational issues in using the TT module at the end of
the<BR>year when YLCs are also trying to use parts of it.<BR><BR>I am now
recommending that we use a TT package to do all the student admin<BR>in classes,
and leave CASES21 purely as the source of base student data.<BR>This is not
ideal but....<BR><BR>So, be careful about choosing CASES21 as your central db.
There are schools<BR>using the TT function successfully so I might be
wrong.<BR><BR>Also, isn't what you are wanting to do part of the ULTRANET idea
that some<BR>schools are trialling?<BR><BR>Regards<BR>Robert T-A<BR>Brighton
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